英语中形容一个人“聪明”，都有哪些说法？

Smart vs Clever vs Intelligent vs Wise

聪明的vs聪明的vs明智的vs智慧的

All these words have a similar or almost the same meaning. They all describe a person (in some cases also an animal) who is smart in one way or another. The big difference between them is the occasions and situations when you should use them.

所有这些词都有相似或几乎相同的意思。它们都描述了一个人（在某些情况下也是一种动物）在某种程度上是聪明的。它们之间最大的区别在于你应该使用它们的场合和场合。

Smart

聪明的

Let’s start with the most common one – smart.

让我们从最常见的一个开始——聪明的。

Smart means that a person, or animal, is able to solve a problem. You use the word smart to describe someone who can think logically and make a good choice in the situation. Smart also means that the person, or animal, understands what you’re telling them and can act based on that information.

聪明意味着一个人或动物能够解决问题。你用“聪明”这个词来形容一个在这种情况下能够有逻辑地思考并做出正确选择的人。聪明还意味着人或动物理解你在告诉他们什么，并能根据这些信息采取行动。

For example: I always believed my child was very smart.

例如：我一直认为我的孩子很聪明。

That’s a really smart dog. It learned all the tricks in one month. /Smart is used when we want to describe the basic level of Intelligence. This requires understanding, reasoning, and then doing an action.那只狗真聪明。

它在一个月内学会了所有的技巧。/当我们想描述智力的基本水平时，就使用Smart。这需要理解、推理，然后采取行动。

Opposite of Smart

Smart的反义词

The opposite of smart is stupid.

聪明的反面是愚蠢。

So, smart describes someone intelligent or someone who is very knowledgeable. It’s the first step to describing intellect.

所以，smart指的是一个聪明的人或者一个知识渊博的人。这是描述智力的第一步。

Intelligent

聪明的

Intelligent is a step above smart. Intelligent is used to describe people, and some rare animals, that can think on their own, and act on their instincts.

智能是比智能更高的一步。有些人用自己的智慧和本能来形容自己的动物。

When someone is smart they act based on the information they get. When someone is intelligent they find their own information, come to understand it by themselves, and then make up their mind about what they want to do.

当一个人很聪明的时候，他们会根据他们得到的信息行事。当一个人很聪明的时候，他们会发现自己的信息，自己去理解，然后决定自己想做什么。

In a way, being intelligent means that a person, or animal, is more independent than when they are smart. This is why an IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test measures intelligence.

在某种程度上，聪明意味着一个人或动物比他们聪明时更独立。这就是为什么智商测试衡量智力。

Let’s go over some examples:

让我们来看看一些例子：

Most of her students are smart, but she says some of them are so intelligent that they outshine the rest. /When he moved to New York and managed to get a job in one week I was sure he was super intelligent. /Dolphins are some of the most intelligent animals on the planet. /Intelligent describes this higher level of intellect, and it’s just above smart. Being intelligent means being able to do things on your own, and making choices based on what you know and not what people tell you.

她的大多数学生都很聪明，但她说，他们中的一些人非常聪明，比其他学生更聪明。/当他搬到纽约，并设法在一周内找到一份工作时，我确信他是超级聪明的。/海豚是地球上最聪明的动物之一。/智能描述了更高层次的智能，它只是在智能之上。聪明意味着能够独立做事，并根据你所知道的而不是别人告诉你的来做出选择。

Clever

聪明的

Now let’s move on to clever. Unlike smart or intelligent, clever is defined by the situation more than the intellect of a person. When someone, or something, is clever it means they can act quickly in that type of situation.

现在让我们转到聪明。与聪明或聪明不同，聪明更多的是由环境而不是一个人的智力来定义的。当某人或某事是聪明的，这意味着他们可以在这种情况下迅速行动。

For example:

例如：

Comedians are clever. /My cat is very clever since he’s learned to open the door when we’re not home. /I made a joke yesterday and then Ann was clever enough to add to it. We laughed for hours. /Please stop your clever remarks in class.

喜剧演员很聪明。/我的猫很聪明，因为它学会了在我们不在家时开门。/我昨天开了个玩笑，然后安聪明地加了一句。我们笑了好几个小时。/请停止你在课堂上的妙语。

Here we can see that clever is mostly defined by the situation. It can also mean that someone is funny. Clever is not used in the same way as smart or intelligent. It does not describe someone’s intellect.

这里我们可以看出，聪明主要是由情境决定的。这也意味着某人很有趣。聪明和聪明的使用方式不同。它不能描述一个人的智力。

Wise

明智的

And finally – wise. Wise describes a person who knows many things because of their age. Wise can also describe someone who knows a lot of philosophy.

最后——明智。智者描述的是一个由于年龄而知道很多事情的人。很多聪明人也能描述很多哲理。

The most common way to use wise is to describe older people who know a lot of information.

使用wise最常见的方法是描述了解大量信息的老年人。

For example:

例如：

My grandpa is so wise. He always gives good advice, and he knows a lot of history. /He’s wise for his age. He knows things like an old man would. /This is how we use wise. We describe someone who thinks a lot about a lot of things. We usually expect these people to know a lot of information, but wise doesn’t require them to understand it. Smart and intelligent describe intellect and understanding.

我爷爷真聪明。他总是给人很好的建议，而且他知道很多历史。/就他的年龄而言，他很聪明。他知道的事情就像一个老人一样。/这就是我们使用wise的方法。我们描述的是一个对很多事情想得很多的人。我们通常希望这些人知道很多信息，但wise并不要求他们理解这些信息。聪明和聪明描述智力和理解力。

Wise only means that a person remembers a lot of info and that they are probably old.

智慧只意味着一个人能记住很多信息，而且他们可能已经老了。